Defending individual liberty against the tyranny of government.
Truth, justice and the American way: liberty without compromise.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life,liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. - Frédéric Bastiat

I haven't the foggiest idea if these jobs are needed more in Atlanta or New York. Neither does Chuck the Schmuck. What I do know is that an economy is finite. Government can decree all it wants that it can create additional jobs elsewhere while maintaining existing jobs at home, but the reality is that resources are finite. Now, in the private sector, a company simply can't keep creating more jobs than it needs to meet its customers' demands. There's only so much money to go around, so a company must decide where jobs are best used. Government, however, simply takes our money (that we'd have spent elsewhere in the economy on what we deemed more desirable) to finance the additional jobs.

Government first uses its coercive power to extract money from us to sustain these jobs. Second, individual legislators tap into that coercive power for their own pet endeavors. In the private sector, jobs continue to exist only because of competition. Schumer, like John Kerry and virtually every other legislator, uses the power of legislative blackmail to keep the jobs.

The FAA isn't exactly free-market, but because they're the ones with the relevant information, I'd trust its bureaucrats more to move jobs where they think they're better used, rather than pandering politicians like Schumer.

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"You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government."
- Patrick Henry, 1788